Motherboards

vaporubs · Post by **vaporubs** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 9:35 am

I have a Abit VP6 and it does not have the feature to turn off plug and play...this is putting my pulsar 2 on irq 17...yes 17 and I cannot change this.....I m going to buy a different motherboard...What are some motherboards out there that have not caused any conflicts with the pulsar 2.

Thanks

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 10:32 am

Well, does it work? I use ACPI succesfully on XP Pro, Pulsars are on 16-17, no problemo.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 10:37 am

I used ACPI too, the only problem is Copyprotectionviolation that I solved by making cset.ini write only (thanks for the tip PT), if you do this remember to deselect the readonly attribute if you make ANY changes inside the Pulsar settings menu. I've since switched to Stanard PC install and get identical PCI performance and the same performance in general, only I don't need the cset.ini workaround. On a dual with Creamware, use only WinXP/ACPI (if you have a modern board which supports ACPI well, a buggy ACPI implementation makes everything less smooth)

vaporubs · Post by **vaporubs** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 10:55 am

I keep getting this error...windows xp goes to blue screen DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS in scope.sys

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:07 am

Another FAQ... I think this one is because you have PnP "ON" in the BIOS. Disable that.

vaporubs · Post by **vaporubs** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:15 am

Subhuman that is the problem with my motherboard---there is no option for plug and play....Thanks

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:32 am

Look on page 3-28 of your <B>ABIT VP6 MANUAL</a>
http://210.192.220.184/ftp/pub/manual/english/vp6.pdf

vaporubs · Post by **vaporubs** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:40 am

I dont quite understand how to set corretly, it is impossible to get in touch with abit, can you help? Thank You For The Link

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:41 am

You set this to "OFF" or "NO" and that is it.

vaporubs · Post by **vaporubs** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:51 am

no fix the problem subhuman thanks

vaporubs · Post by **vaporubs** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:53 am

Subhuman do you have an abit motherboard..if so which model?

witchstar · Post by **witchstar** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 5:29 pm

I don't know what kind of CPU/chipset/RAM configuration the VP6 is, or what you're looking for, but I just built a system for Pulsar, and it works beautifully:
Gigabyte GA-8IRX mobo
w/Intel 845 chipset
Intel Northwood 2.0ghz CPU
1gb PC2400 CAS2 DDR RAM
Regards,
Mark

Post by **garyb** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 10:07 am

because he tests so many mobos,subhuman has them ALL!

vaporubs · Post by **vaporubs** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 9:59 pm

Any good info on the VIA Apollo Pro266 chipset and how it functions with pulsar

Post by **garyb** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 11:34 pm

it's pretty well documented. there are only two choices to make.
#1 intel.
#2 amd 760
intel is the best choice,clearly.